Botnet Takes Over Twitch Install and Partially Installs Gentoo

I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by damn_registrars · 2015-11-01 16:52 · Score: 4, Insightful

On Friday I suggested that it was highly likely we would see this:

I expect some people are trying to figure out a way to install another OS on top of (or somehow in place of) Arch Linux.

And I suspect others saw this as coming as well. I will say though, I see gentoo as being somewhat snippy and uninspired for this. I would have been really impressed had they managed to install OS X or Windows through this manner (likely the only time in my life I've said that about the latter).

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Re:I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 17:05 · Score: 1

With "short links" a wget to an obscure tld wouldn't be hard to pull off during off-hours where most people are bored/asleep. This isn't twitch plays pokemon with 10,000s of people participating.
Combined with the ability to spamflood the API with coordinated attacks and this doesn't seem too surprising. This does make for an interesting variation of "capture the flag" though. :P
If I was the sysadmin here: I would want to sleep with one eye open!
Re:I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 17:11 · Score: 0

wget and dd a dodgy enterprise install?
Re:I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by stephanruby · 2015-11-01 17:22 · Score: 4, Funny

I would have been really impressed had they managed to install OS X or Windows through this manner.
They probably didn't want to be classified as malicious.
Re: I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 17:39 · Score: 0

You know there's this thing called the world right? It's always daytime somewhere.
Re:I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 17:40 · Score: 1

The problem is that it was one person with an army of bots doing what they pleased, rather than a collaborative clusterfuck like pokemon was, so nobody was having any fun except the botnet owner.
Re:I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by arglebargle_xiv · 2015-11-01 18:03 · Score: 1, Troll

Numerous friends of mine have been a victim of a similar botnet, the massive WindowsUpdate botnet, that installed Windows 10 on their machines when they were perfectly happy with Windows 7. Luckily you can upgrade back to Windows 7, but its still a worrying development. I've heard that as of early next year, the botnet will get even more aggressive in pushing out its malware.
Re: I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 19:27 · Score: 0

You must be a morning person. A true insomniac knows that between 3am-7am on weekdays there are virtually no English speakers awake online(aside from the Kiwis).
Re: I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 21:12 · Score: 0

Let them try, my SSD is full!
Re: I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 21:46 · Score: 0

wuh dunt spik 'nglush.
Re: I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by jonwil · 2015-11-01 22:07 · Score: 1

Naah, the kiwis would have been too busy partying after their win in some kind of sporting contest (I am a little fuzzy on the details but aparently whatever sport it was is the national game over there and its considered un-kiwi to not follow the relavent national team)
Re:I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by Provocateur · 2015-11-01 22:43 · Score: 2, Funny

Luckily you can upgrade back to Windows 7
You know we're a long long way from Mars when the future of computing technology is summarized like that, right there

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Re:I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by damn_registrars · 2015-11-02 00:44 · Score: 2

The problem is that it was one person with an army of bots doing what they pleased, rather than a collaborative clusterfuck like pokemon was, so nobody was having any fun except the botnet owner.
Sure, but as I recall, it was only going to take one keystroke (including space or enter) per 10 minutes. Hence

wget a

would take an hour to enter. I'm surprised they got this far in so little time.

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Re: I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 01:52 · Score: 0

You sound like a fellow very interested in sportsing.
Re:I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by dos1 · 2015-11-02 02:49 · Score: 1

10 seconds, not minutes.
Re:I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by damn_registrars · 2015-11-02 04:17 · Score: 1

That did seem really, really, slow; I must have misread something along the way. Indeed the previous entry here says 10 seconds, thank you for the correction.

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Re:I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by JustAnotherOldGuy · 2015-11-02 04:29 · Score: 1

On Friday I suggested that it was highly likely we would see this

Yep.
Personally I'm surprised that rm -r /* hasn't been forced through...a lot fewer keystrokes to succeed with that one.

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Re: I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 04:57 · Score: 0

MLB World Series?
Re:I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by KGIII · 2015-11-02 09:04 · Score: 1

What's funny is this is being claimed as a botnet. It wasn't. They're the dumbasses that allow an IRC connection. It just needs a few like-minded individuals and a handful of proxies. Botnet... *sighs* They'll make anything seem worse than it is.

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Re:I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by morgauxo · 2015-11-04 08:55 · Score: 1

Agreed. Installing Gentoo instead of Arch might have just been a TFTFY sort of favor, not a malicious hack.

I'm torn on this. by MAXOMENOS · 2015-11-01 17:08 · Score: 3, Insightful

On the one hand, I'm not fond of black hats. On the other, that's really, really funny.

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Re:I'm torn on this. by Aighearach · 2015-11-01 17:35 · Score: 4, Interesting

I'm not convinced they are black hats. It is a normal outcome that when a random user tries to install a linux distro, they end up with a different one installed than they had first begun installing. If it is a crowd-sourced effort, who is to say which outcome is more deserving? If there was no intended range of possible outcomes, what exactly was the crowd's involvement supposed to be? If the crowd was supposed to simply replace some of the software, it is hard to call the experiment a success or failure; maybe somebody made a wrong predication about the outcome. I guess the failure was that they pulled the plug without discovering the outcome?
Re:I'm torn on this. by quantaman · 2015-11-01 17:47 · Score: 4, Informative

On the one hand, I'm not fond of black hats. On the other, that's really, really funny.
The summary said it was a botnet, which suggests a lot of hijacked computers (and illegal unethical activity), but unless there's evidence that wasn't mentioned it could just have easily been a bunch of bots running on the person's own laptop.

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Re:I'm torn on this. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 19:14 · Score: 5, Funny

That's SchrÃdinger Linux.
It installs both Gentoo and Arch into a superpartition.
Re: I'm torn on this. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 20:17 · Score: 0

Oh I wish I had mods.
Re:I'm torn on this. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 21:55 · Score: 0

I remember trying to install debian only to get some strange redhat derivative recently. Don't always get what you expect and it doesn't always take a botnet.
Re:I'm torn on this. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 23:08 · Score: 0

Do you hear that whooshing sound overhead?
Re:I'm torn on this. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 00:07 · Score: 0

that's just in your head... between your ears!
Re: I'm torn on this. by zidium · 2015-11-02 01:33 · Score: 1

Yeah?? I just wish Slashdot had UTF-8 support so close to 2016!!

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Re: I'm torn on this. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 03:24 · Score: 0

No kidding. Epic comprehension fail due to narrow perspective.
Re: I'm torn on this. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 06:35 · Score: 0

I'd settle for ASCII support at this point, an o with an umlaut is ASCII 148
Re:I'm torn on this. by KGIII · 2015-11-02 09:10 · Score: 1

This was not some sort of black hat hacking group. Well, not really. Someone kindly pointed out that IRC is allowed. The rest took care of itself. See the prior thread. It was done for lulz, not for black hat type of things. There wasn't even really a botnet, that I know of. Just a few people with big ol' list of proxies and a refresher in IRC scripting.

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Re: I'm torn on this. by lokedhs · 2015-11-02 21:15 · Score: 1

ASCII is 7-bit. It has no code 148. You must be confusing it with ISO 8859-1 which was a popular encoding in western Europe before UTF-8 took over.
Re: I'm torn on this. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-03 02:12 · Score: 0

Not only that, what they said was wrong.
PortableApps *do* touch your registry, they just clean up after themselves.. providing they don't get killed.
Captcha: falter
Re:I'm torn on this. by Aighearach · 2015-11-03 18:14 · Score: 1

Wait, wait, are you telling me you actually thought that random users could tell filenames apart? And get from the start to the end of a set of instructions without having switched in the middle to a completely different set of instructions?
Yeah, "users are a myth," right?
Re:I'm torn on this. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-03 22:22 · Score: 0

Easy to pick. This is my preference and I've used most distros over many years.
a) https://software.opensuse.org/developer/en?release=developer
b) https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst
c) distrowatch.com (hub for links to all distros including above)
Yeah, dickhead. the world knows how to download. to install you click next next next next next next etc and hope your Microsoft mouse doesn't break. If you have a new PC with the newer UEFI and "Secure Boot" you just reboot before you start installing and switch "Secure Boot" (a Microsoft lie) to "Legacy Boot" and go about you business. If it's just a BIOS-based desktop/laptop you just burn what you downloaded above to cd/dvd (depends on size) or put it on a flash drive as explained above.
Are you really trying to have this long convo by saying stupid shit over and over? Installing Linux is easy as fuck Google search for how to use Linux or how to install Linux it's not some brand new shit. It rocks. It isn't spyware. It's not bloatware. It's just fun computing. Browsers emails all that shit just works.
If you just install Linux into virtual machines you can opt to not install from a burned or usb image. You can just install from the .iso file in a folder on your HD. Point to it appropriately in eg. Virtual Box. Choose a disc size... I prefer static vs. dynamic disc. Select static. Boot it, nextnext blahblah set timezone eng keyboard etc. Shut down the virtual machine when it's done installing. Remove the link (eject) to the .iso. Boot it back up and log in. Open a browser and learn how to use it. Every distro has docs and manuals and a lot of video tutorials. YouTube covers it. Avoid Ubuntu and the other -untu's... and Redhat/Fedora and you will have a good time. You can also try Knoppix or similar live filesystem Boot your pc with a burned DVD of Knoppix, press space bar to stop the boot process. Type the following: knoppix toram Those two words. It will load everything and keep it in RAM. It's read-only so no changes to anything on your system. Pretty cool way to try Linux, and also a good thing to use for other reasons like accessing a crashed Windows OS and getting your files off of it.

Yeah, "users are a myth," right?
The problem with what you said is in using the word "random". Had you not included the word "random" you would have made sense but still been wrong.

I'm not convinced they are black hats. It is a normal outcome that when a random user tries to install a linux distro, they end up with a different one installed than they had first begun installing.
What you said is not only a lie, and not only some fantasy about mysterious black hats, but in that context the word random makes you look stupid.
Re: I'm torn on this. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-03 22:41 · Score: 0

Not only that, what they said was wrong.
PortableApps *do* touch your registry, they just clean up after themselves.. providing they don't get killed.
Captcha: falter
http://portableapps.com/manuals/PortableApps.comLauncher/topics/registry.html
Ok what I said was right. An install would be touching your registry. Portableapps.com do not touch your registry persistently. It is not an install.
eg. You can use their launcher "suite" or just download individually what you want. You run it from a folder. When you close the app, the shit is gone from everywhere except that folder. If you say... have it running.. and reboot.. the next time you open it, it will say it didn't close down properly and is "cleaning up". Open it again, it's up.. close it... it's gone again. Again leaving your registry unfettered with parameters.
You being pedantic? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_application
Call them standalone apps. Many of them are cross-platform. I'd say all of the good ones already exist in every Linux distro. Many are ported to Windows that originally compiled on and developed for Linux and BSD.
captcha: suggests
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What language is this written in? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 17:51 · Score: 1, Insightful

This is painful to read. Are the moderators sleeping?

Re:What language is this written in? by blavallee · 2015-11-01 18:05 · Score: 3, Informative

Yeah, it discusses a strange experiment, assuming everyone understands the details.

Basically, it's a democratic attempt to enter commands into the CLI.
With the end goal of installing the Arch Linux OS.

Because the most popular command entered, wins. The experiment was hijacked by someone using a botnet, resulting in a majority.
Nothing malicious, most likely a prank. Since the hijack was installing an alternative distro (Gentoo).

If the organizers don't want to see something like this happen again, pehaps they should check out the Electoral College
Re:What language is this written in? by ttucker · 2015-11-01 18:18 · Score: 1

But what about how the Slashdot article text has no semantic meaning?
Re:What language is this written in? by gl4ss · 2015-11-01 18:36 · Score: 1

was the install broadcasted on twitch? you'd think that users were trying to install arch linux on twitch's servers and some strange botnet showed up or some shit like that

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Re:What language is this written in? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 19:04 · Score: 0

Keep in mind that Twitch's chat is IRC chat and someone could effectively spam the hell out of it.
Re:What language is this written in? by Cederic · 2015-11-01 19:39 · Score: 1

Oh! That makes far more sense.
I was interpreting it as some fucked up twitch based interactive tutorial on how to install a linux distro on your own PC.
Tuning in to crowdsource screwing over someone else's PC is equally odd, but seems a perfectly legit target for an IRC bot.
Re:What language is this written in? by Hognoxious · 2015-11-01 20:29 · Score: 1

Does it have an unsemantic meaning?

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Re:What language is this written in? by ttucker · 2015-11-01 20:32 · Score: 1

Evidently to whoever wrote that collection of words.
Re:What language is this written in? by tehcyder · 2015-11-02 03:23 · Score: 1

But what about how the Slashdot article text has no semantic meaning?
Slashdot have out-sourced their crowd-funded story-editing to a Chinese botnet.
In a day or two I'm sure we'll see the improvements in grammar, spelling and general sense.

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Re:What language is this written in? by ttucker · 2015-11-02 07:03 · Score: 1

Upon further review, it appears that the article text was written by someone that was intimately familiar with some Twitch happening, and wrote something from that perspective. Not really written as news, or with any general appeal in mind at all. Combine that with the blog like ramblings of Bennett, and I seriously wonder why I keep coming here. Kind of a compulsion more than anything.

Illustrative of life?? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 18:09 · Score: 0

So like a coup, if they guys with the big guns (Botnet) had installed their government (Gentoo) you'd have lost control of the one-man-one-keypress install [twitch]?

Re: Illustrative of life?? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 18:44 · Score: 0

It shows more how the lobby industry works within a democracy.

Where do I find this botnet? by whoever57 · 2015-11-01 18:15 · Score: 5, Funny

I have a partial install of Gentoo that I need to work on. The first clean Gentoo install that I have done for almost a decade.

How can I get this botnet to finish the job?

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Re:Where do I find this botnet? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 20:45 · Score: 0

I can't get Microsoft's botnet to install Windows 10 to my other, older Windows 8.1 machine. Maybe this botnet could help with my situation as well?
Re:Where do I find this botnet? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 01:22 · Score: 0

just curl this url and overwrite your sda like the botnet was doing http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=yKL5wc3W
Re:Where do I find this botnet? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 04:06 · Score: 0

I'm still waiting for my kernel to compile god damnit.

For two more "really"s before the "funny" ... by Ungrounded+Lightning · 2015-11-01 18:20 · Score: 1

On the one hand, I'm not fond of black hats. On the other, that's really, really funny.

I'd have added a couple more "really"s if, instead of Gentoo, the bots switched 'em to OpenBSD

If they got it, they probably. needed a high security OS . B-)

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Is it April Fool's already? by bytesex · 2015-11-01 18:55 · Score: 1

'The war of the Linux installers'?

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Re:Is it April Fool's already? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 19:21 · Score: 1

AI bot nets arise and the first thing they do is fight over which Linux distribution to use ? Surely they know by now the only winning move is not playing

Re: I can't be the only one who saw this coming.. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 18:55 · Score: 0

I doubt daytime is when most Twitch users are up and awake.

Re: I can't be the only one who saw this coming.. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 19:12 · Score: 0

Well, it's always nighttime somewhere too. But asians doesn't use twitch.

Could there be anything more useless by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 19:39 · Score: 1

than this concept?

I mean, I can get behind almost anything with no point other than "because it would be cool".

But to attempt to "crowd source" the install of a fucking linux by taking semi-random keystrokes from a chat feed? What's the fucking point? How's that even "cool"?

Re:Could there be anything more useless by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 23:57 · Score: 0

What you say is all right and makes sense and all, but it's somehow cool, innit?
Re: Could there be anything more useless by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 00:34 · Score: 0

No. None more useless.
Like the rest of the "Twitch Plays Something" streams, it's a joke. Crowdsourcing the controls for a game of Pokemon was an absurd and pointless thing to do. Crowdsourcing the controls for a game of Dark Souls was an even more absurd and pointless thing to do. And now we have an attempt to crowdsource the process of installing an OS.
These are all the kinds of ideas you have while hanging out with friends and getting stoned. And not the ones that still seem like smart things to do when you're sober. They are impractical and absurd. Which is why they are potentially funny.
I mean, the results of this one? Where someone installed a completely different OS? I laughed at that.

install gentoo by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 19:46 · Score: 0

install gentoo

Re:install gentoo by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 01:24 · Score: 0

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Re: install gentoo by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 01:42 · Score: 0

At the rate we're going, in a few years you'll be the one harping on how it's not Linux, it's SystemD/Linux.
Re:install gentoo by CronoCloud · 2015-11-02 02:24 · Score: 1

No really cares much about how RMS has that autistic-spectrum excessive focus on the terminology, when everyone else just wants a snappy and short and easy to pronounce name.
So "Normal" people call it Linux, and they outnumber bearded autistic people who use computers like it was 1971 or something, by a HUGE number.
Re:install gentoo by KGIII · 2015-11-02 09:22 · Score: 1

Look, the other option was to get cowsay installed early and then make it moo and do a barrel role. (Or sl - everyone likes trains, right?) What's funny is that people think it was a botnet. *sighs* Drama on top of drama. Screenshots of the IRC commands are up on 4chan every once in a while - still. Post and someone may deliver. Or not... It was for the lulz, not for the hacking. This was discussed in the last thread. This was the absolute certain outcome - they would deny lulz for they are the killers of lulz.
y u no liek lulz?

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Heh heh by cfalcon · 2015-11-01 21:22 · Score: 4, Funny

I wonder what plot will next.... emerge?

Sorry.

Re:Heh heh by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 00:28 · Score: 0

Yum, that is an apt pun.
Apologies.
Re:Heh heh by smallfries · 2015-11-02 06:31 · Score: 1

On the contrary your pun seems quite... apt.
Sorry I'll apt-get my-coat.

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Re:Heh heh by MarkRose · 2015-11-02 14:12 · Score: 1

I tried coming up with a follow up pun, but it was no USE.

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It's war by frup · 2015-11-01 21:43 · Score: 2

The war of the machines has begun. It really is the year of the Linux Desktop.

hmmm. sounds familiar by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 21:48 · Score: 0

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8254251&cid=50836435

i didnt do it, honest. it was that *other* ac.

anyone else completely confused by the summary? by advocate_one · 2015-11-01 23:29 · Score: 3, Informative

what the fsck is 'twitch'? Does anyone really care?

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Re:anyone else completely confused by the summary? by fisted · 2015-11-01 23:58 · Score: 3, Informative

It's basically a shitty stream provider with frequent outages and if you allow enough 3rd party javascripts and trackers, you get A Flash Based Video Player!

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Re:anyone else completely confused by the summary? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 00:11 · Score: 0

I care, sounds interesting but the point as to what is "Twitch" is valid.
Heck what is "Arch"?
Googling each and every unfamiliar word is as fun as doing my taxes.
I'm glad I know what "Gentoo" is but it would be a great help if the editors (or submitters) wouldn't assume the readers know all of the lingo in a story.
Re:anyone else completely confused by the summary? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 01:42 · Score: 0

I have no idea what the summary is trying to say either. It sounds like a crappy play-by-play cobbled together by an idiot. It assumes we all know about the subject matter so it's missing half the details and the conclusion.
Re:anyone else completely confused by the summary? by DrXym · 2015-11-02 01:51 · Score: 1

Vanity TV basically. It livestreams people playing games.
Re:anyone else completely confused by the summary? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 04:05 · Score: 0

Fisted's done a better one of course (not). Where's your sourcecode for it fisted? Where is it period?? It's not.
Re:anyone else completely confused by the summary? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 04:11 · Score: 0

Go take your meds grandpa. Kids are working here.
Re:anyone else completely confused by the summary? by Coren22 · 2015-11-02 05:16 · Score: 1

Because people are required to provide proof that they have produced something better before they are allowed to critique something? You are nuts.

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Re:anyone else completely confused by the summary? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 09:23 · Score: 0

You don't have to allow any 3rd party stuff. And what's so shitty about it? Which one is better?

This is it. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 00:44 · Score: 0

Skynet has become self-aware.

The War of the Distros is heating up... by sabbede · 2015-11-02 00:50 · Score: 1

Start locking up all the supplies you can get your hands on. It's going to be a bad one.

The good news is that there is a linux version of "This War of Mine", a handy guidebook to situations such as this.

what music song? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 01:21 · Score: 0

Does anyone know the name of the music with the piano and the lady singing ah ah aaah aah? Shazam doesn't recognise it.

Re:what music song? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 03:02 · Score: 0

Here it is.

GNU's Not UNIX, but it's even more not Android by tepples · 2015-11-02 02:07 · Score: 1

Easier to swallow:

Arch and Gentoo are distributions of GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux systems run the GNU userland on the Linux kernel to reproduce the functionality of the UNIX system. GNU/Linux can be distinguished from other operating environments that use Linux, such as Android or embedded Linux.

Re:GNU's Not UNIX, but it's even more not Android by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 10:15 · Score: 0

You mean GNA! (Gnu's not Android!)?

Waka waka waka by tepples · 2015-11-02 02:09 · Score: 1

You both will be eaten by Pacman for that pun. *yum yum*

Re:Waka waka waka by Dragonslicer · 2015-11-02 03:54 · Score: 1

Someone should compile a list of all of these puns.

There's no imminent danger by Progman3K · 2015-11-02 03:54 · Score: 1

It'll take a few weeks to compile, at least

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Thank you botnet masters by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 05:56 · Score: 0

Thank you botnet masters for confronting the systemd menace.

Coren22 "eat your words", lol... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 07:38 · Score: 0

See subject & tell that to fisted since he asked of mine here http://slashdot.org/comments.p... and trolled me all last week on it

I easily shut him up after he libeled myself calling my ware a malware (60++ evidences of it from antivirus companies say otherwise http://slashdot.org/comments.p... )

and

I don't give it out (partially) since Chrome's sourcecode was used FOR MALWARE for real, I don't release mine to stop that happening to me like it did to Google -> http://it.slashdot.org/comment... and it's MY WORK, I am not obligated to give it out (especially for the reasons of Open SORES being abused for malware).

Fisted also admitted I am not obligated to show my code to anyone here too -> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...

Yet he continued to troll me today on it showing he's butthurt due to all his fails (just like you MANY TIMES vs. myself, lol) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

* :)

Funny how YOU often appear to "defend" this piece of sandscum quite a lot too (not). Trolling scum of a feather as the saying goes...

APK

P.S.=> HOW DOES EATING YOUR WORDS TASTE? Oh, don't worry - I'll post YOUR MANY FAILS vs. myself shortly too, lol... you like trolling? Get ready to take what you dish out... apk

Coren22 "security guru" wannabe fails security by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 07:44 · Score: 0

YOU say "hosts=bad" (but they add security, speed, & reliability) & bitch on admin privelege to UPDATE vs. threats:

"So, have you figured out why privilege escalation is a bad thing yet?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:15PM (#50577809)

Hypocrite - You use admin priv admitting it

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How else can I programmatically update hosts minus it in Windows?

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"Of course it requires elevation to write to the hosts file" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:35PM (#50585879)

You FINALLY later admit there's no other way!

FACT:

Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware (best one) DEMANDS you use admin privelege (you saying it's "bad" too?) it can't do its job fully otherwise, like many security tools do!

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Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET says hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...

Oliver Day (Symantec) does-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...

MalwareBytes' hpHosts hosts & recommends my APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit-> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...

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* HOW MANY SECURITY PROS DO I NEED TO KNOCK THE CHOCOLATE OUTTA YOU?

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Those security pros INCLUDE me: I work w/ guys from malwarebytes' hpHosts on a regular basis!

I've professionally worked for decades as a combined domain-wide network admin & software engineer since 1994 (Even showing you HOW to migrate a hosts across an enterprise-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... )

I've also been securing computers + WRITING GUIDES using CIS Tool (who took fixes from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p... - bonus) http://www.bing.com/search?q=%...

You told me you learn from guides?

I write good ones that MILLIONS USE & was PAID FOR IT http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn...

+ WARES TO PROTECT USERS that are endorsed & hosted by security pros -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...

You did all that? No!

(& that's ONLY a SMALL part of what I could put out)

APK

P.S.=> You're all TALK -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & a "ne'er-do-well" as far as security...apk

Coren22 proven a LYING punk by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 09:00 · Score: 0

"APK doesn't think that DNS servers are worth running and seems to believe that somehow Microsoft Active Directory can run without DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @12:58PM (#50811615)

Where'd I say AD will run minus DNS Coren22? I've said AD = internal network DNS dependent as far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...

(Searching this in BOLD "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers!" referring to OpenDNS suggestions for those using AD stupid in the POST BEFORE IT in my security guides for users (geared to stand alone single machines no less), & right there on that page proves it stupid - so even if you posted as myself someplace here on /. "impersonating me", I have your ass NOW, shithead!)

I've also stated MANY TIMES I use remote DNS in OpenDNS @ home (but not @ work on AD networks since the free model does NOT work with AD specifically you lying little imbecile).

I also don't hardcode in "every site there is under the sun" is why, so I have to use DNS, but OpenDNS & rarely.

I also RARELY MISS A LOOKUP since I put where I spend a good 95++% of my time online in my favorite sites into hosts @ the TOP of hosts for utmost LOCAL FASTER RESOLUTION SPEEDS and more reliability vs. Open DNS (not OpenDNS) resolvers being abused, Kaminsky redirect poisoned DNS servers (of which 99.999% of ISP DNS are not proofed against to this very day even though a patch exists which OpenDNS uses), rogue DNS servers, and yes ROUTERS with bushwhacked by malware DNS settings (happening a LOT lately).

Hardcodes in hosts are faster than remote DNS, waste less resources than local dns in power, cpu cycles, RAM, & other I/O by FAR considering ALL THE PARTS of such a setup in programs, data, I/O, & power (especially if setup as a separate machine). Most people out there don't run a home LAN. They have single systems.

APK

P.S.=> You're a disgusting butthurt liar... apk

Coren22's desperation, lies, & libel by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 10:36 · Score: 0

"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)

False positive: I've wrote 'em long ago, no response vs. 60++ REPUTABLE sources (not nobodies) below that fries you Coren22!

Is that YOUR fake site for MORE LIES Coren22?

Lying about me LIKE YOU DID HERE punk? -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ??

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MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

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It's safe proven by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...

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Its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...

More "SALT IN YOUR WOUNDS" -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...

APK

P.S.=> /.'ers say my work is good too:

"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)

"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)

"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)

"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)

I was watching this by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 10:41 · Score: 0

I saw this happen.. it was hilarious. I was rooting for them to install gentoo.. although they made it more difficult than they really had to. They used multiple commands when they could have gotten away with only one.. cuz they used curl and a shell script but the shell script could have been executed instead of saved. Would have saved like 3 tries!!

Best Gentoo Install Method by neurovish · 2015-11-02 11:22 · Score: 1

So, there's a way to get somebody else to install Gentoo for me? That sounds pretty awesome. I'm going to go and install this "Twitch". I recently went from Gentoo to Arch since my Gentoo was frighteningly out of date and the only way to fix it was a complete reinstall. I figured I would give Arch a shot, but so far I still prefer Gentoo.

Coren22's desperation, lies, & libel by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-02 11:34 · Score: 0